Chair



Jan; 27, 1948. B. R. WEILL 2,435,064

CHAIR Original Filed Sept. 19, 1944 IN VEN TOR. Bruno R. Wei ll BY J PATENTAGENT Patented Jan. 27, 1948 CHAIR Bruno R. Weill, Statesville, N. 0., assignor to Thonet Brothers, Inc., New York, N. Y.

Original application September 19, 1944, Serial Divided and this application March 21, 1945, Serial No. 583,968

2 Claims. 1

This invention relates to chairs or similar articles or pieces of furniture and in particular to arm supports on such chairs and a method of making the same.

This invention is a divisional application of my patent application ser. No. 554,741, filed Sept. 19, 1944.

Chairs with arm supports are very well known and the main object of the present invention is to provide a chair with arm supports which are very convenient and very economical in its manufacture.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a method of manufacturing chairs with arm supports Which is bound to reduce the manufacturing costs tremendously and which simplifies the manufacturing in such a way that the output can be brought up as it could not be achieved before.

These objects are achieved mainly by making the legs and the arm supports of the chairs of plywood and by extending about half of the plywood sheets above the seat level to a height for a proper arm support, the latter being formed integrally merely by bending over for about 90 the upward extending plywood sheets, the lower part of which are part of the legs of the chair.

With these and other objects in view which will become apparent in the following description, the present invention will be clearly understood in connection with the accompanying drawing in which, the only figure shows a perspective view as seen from the side.

Referring now to the drawing, the chair consists of the usual supporting part, comprising four legs I in the embodiment shown in the drawing. The legs I are formed of a plurality of plywood sheets and particularly of two groups I and I of plywood sheets. Both groups of l' and l of plywood sheets are the branches of two U-shaped forms, the groups I' extending to the parts 3. The base of the two U-forms present the arm support A and the support 5 for the seat 2, respectively. The lower part I of the branches of the U-form representing the arm supports together with the branches I of the U-form representing the support for the seat 2 form the legs I of the chair. Thus the legs I are reinforced to about the double thickness by the plywood sheets of both U-forms.

In usual manner the chair is mostly also equipped with a back 6.

The method of manufacturing the chair according to the present invention will clearly disclose how simple and economical the manufacturing can be arranged. A plurality of plywood sheets are joined to a band of predetermined length and then bent to about U-shape. It is clearly shown in the drawing that preferably the branches of the U-forms are somewhat tapered against their base and by this arrangement preferably the same form can be used for bending both U-forms, which differ only by the' length of their branches. After the two U-forms have been prepared they are connected by joining the branches 1' and I to the legs I. In proper manner, as by screws or the like can the seat 2 and back 6 then be attached to form a complete chair.

While I have described herein the improved construction as particularly adapted to chairs, it is to be understood that the same construction may be employed in other similar articles of manufacture, and I wish it to be understood also that the embodiment illustrated in the drawing is a mere example and various modifications within the scope of the appended claims can be made.

What I claim is;

1. In a chair, two supporting elements, each of said supporting elements comprising an upper and a lower inverted U-shaped member formed of a plurality of plywood sheets, the bases of said two members extending in substantially parallel arrangement in predetermined distance from each other, the said lower member being fitted within said upper member and having the branches of said two members joined to form two legs of the chair, a seat supported by and attached to the base of the said lower member and the base of the said upper member forming an arm support.

2. A chair as set forth in claim 1, in which each of said two inverted u-shaped members has an equal number of plywood sheets and each memher is of the same shape, the branches of the said upper member being longer than those of said lower member, so that the ends of the branches of both said members are aligned.

BRUNO R. WEILL.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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